Photos: Fire lookout tower

Building a fire tower watch house

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Tim Repp, a carpenter with Bayer Construction, takes measurements inside the fire tower watch house he's helping build for Tim Roberts, who lives in Sparks and has a ranch in Oregon where he also works for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry. Mr. Roberts is having the fire tower watch house constructed on his property and will later have it transported to Oregon to be used during fire season. Workers from Bayer Construction and Fife Hubbard of Hubbard Cabinetmakers are doing some of the work.

Tim Repp, a carpenter with Bayer Construction, takes measurements inside the fire tower watch house he's helping build for Tim Roberts, who lives in Sparks and has a ranch in Oregon where he also works for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry. Mr. Roberts is having the fire tower watch house constructed on his property and will later have it transported to Oregon to be used during fire season. Workers from Bayer Construction and Fife Hubbard of Hubbard Cabinetmakers are doing some of the work.

Tim Roberts, left, and Fife Hubbard, right, stand near a model of a fire tower watch house that Mr. Roberts is having built. Mr. Roberts, who lives in Sparks and has a ranch in Oregon where he also works for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry, is having the tower constructed on his property. He will later have it transported to Oregon to be used during fire season. Workers from Bayer Construction and Fife Hubbard of Hubbard Cabinetmakers are doing some of the work.

Tim Roberts, left, and Fife Hubbard, right, stand near a model of a fire tower watch house that Mr. Roberts is having built. Mr. Roberts, who lives in Sparks and has a ranch in Oregon where he also works for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry, is having the tower constructed on his property. He will later have it transported to Oregon to be used during fire season. Workers from Bayer Construction and Fife Hubbard of Hubbard Cabinetmakers are doing some of the work.